An outcome of my personal struggles, inquiries and great excitement, this study attempts to answer a question that although it is surprisingly simple I have yet to find a simple answer and thus I find it important to not ...

The majority of people in Hong Kong do not concern with the built environment due to the celebration of materialism and poor education system. Arts education has never been considered as a core subject by students, parents, ...

This thesis will cover a detailed study about the main motivations and benefits from using IP as a transport protocol for specifically A-interface in GERAN for Circuit Switched User-Plane (CS-UP) connection, in addition ...

Majority of current mobile devices include a camera. To meet the form-factor and price requirements, the camera is typically built from inexpensive components which causes defects such as noise, dead pixels and distortions. ...

This thesis investigates how access control can be implemented in applications which utilize Linked Data. From the viewpoint of access control the relevant subject is, instead of Linked Open Data, specifically Linked Closed ...

This thesis presents how a natural language task can be accessed through the use of natural language processing engine in an easy way. So far the access to the task of part-of-speech tagging and other tasks has been going ...

Crying is the first means of communication for an infant through which it expresses its physiological and psychological needs. Infant cry analysis is the investigation of infant cry vocalizations in order to extract social ...

Audio information retrieval has been a popular research subject over the last decades and being a subfield of this area, acoustic event classification has a considerable amount of share in the research. In this thesis, ...

Scattering is a physical phenomenon which can be modeled with a boundary value problem for a partial differential equation. This boundary value problem gives rise to two kind of problems: direct scattering problem and ...

This thesis consists in the extension of the baseline system for Acoustic Scene Classification, developed by the Audio Research Group at Tampere university of Technology for the challenge of Detection and Classification ...

Customer experience is an established construct in business, however its strategic importance has been understood only recently. Customer experience starts long before the actual point of purchase, which is why it is ...

Harmonics compensation has become increasingly important as the presence of nonlinear loads and the use of power electronic devices, both generating harmonics, have increased. Harmonics increase losses and have unwanted ...

Active Shape Model (AAM) and Active Appearance Model (AAM) are the commonly used methods in facial landmark localization, in the past 20 years, there are a few extended methods, which are based on the classical ones, being ...

Virtual decomposition control is a new non-linear model-based (that is, based on the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies) control approach for controlling multiple degrees of freedom robots. It has been successfully ...

In the thesis, adaptive controller is applied to optimize the operation of grid-connected inverter under varying grid conditions. Adaptive control is based on the real-time measurements of grid impedance. The thesis presents ...

Full-duplex transmission is a scheme where the transmitter and the receiver of a transceiver can transmit and receive simultaneously using same carrier frequency. Full-duplex transmission theoretically doubles the spectral ...